Amazon’s cloud unit forms agentic AI group under Swami Sivasubramanian

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’s cloud unit forms agentic AI group under Swami Sivasubramanian

Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president at

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’s cloud group is establishing a unit that will build software for working with artificial intelligence agents as the company aims to keep pace with competitors in generative AI.

Swami Sivasubramanian, an

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vice president who has been at the company for about two decades, announced the plans in a Wednesday

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“Agentic systems offer possibilities that extend far beyond today’s chatbots and will drive efficiency like we haven’t seen before,” wrote Sivasubramanian, who most recently was in charge of

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Web Services’ database, analytics and AI services. “They will orchestrate complex workflows and solve problems with human-like reasoning, while maximizing performance and cost effectiveness at scale.”

On Tuesday,

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reported that AWS CEO Matt Garman called agentic AI a potential multibillion-dollar business for AWS, in a memo about the new group.

Customers have begun adopting agent software through AWS.

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is also a big user internally. For example, the company’s programmers have begun directing AWS’ Q developer service to write or update source code.

Sivasubramanian said

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has “saved 4,500 developer years using

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Q Developer’s code transformation capability to upgrade Java applications.”

In November,

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an Azure AI Agent Service, and two months later

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-backed OpenAI started allowing paying users try its agent software called Operator. In December,

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said it would provide

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to its Agentspace tool for a select set of customers.

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leads the cloud infrastructure market, with nearly $29 billion in AWS revenue in the fourth quarter, well ahead of

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and

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has started promoting a next-generation version of its Alexa voice assistant that will be able to use AI models from AWS and from Anthropic, which is backed by

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. Anthropic is handling the most advanced elements of the new Alexa+, CNBC reported last week, though an

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spokesperson called the information “false.”

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